All Heads of Bureaus & Offices Department of Finance
1.
GENERAL APPROACH
For calendar year 1988, the pursuit of the basic strategies against graft and corruption laid down by the Presidential Committee on Public Ethics & Accountability shall be vigorously pursued. It shall be one of our primary endeavors for 1988 to DEREGULATE, to make transactions TRANSPARENT, to STREAMLINE operations and to ENHANCE THE RISKS of being CAUGHT for engaging in corrupt acts.
II.
A.
SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES OF THE PROGRAM
DEREGULATION
It is the intention in DEREGULATION to do away with all of the excuses of our personnel in engaging in negative bureaucratic behavior in the guise of enforcing certain regulations. Therefore, it shall be our objectives to 1. Insure that new regulations will not further make it more difficult for the public to transact business with us nor increase the requirements for engaging our services; 2. Arrive at an inventory of our REGULATIONS, codify these regulations and eliminate overlaps as well as repeal. absolute and unnecessary regulations ; and 3. Replace existing regulations to arrive at equally if not more effective regulations that are easier to comply with and to administer.
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B.
TRANSPARENCY
regulations giving wide latitude of and rules Laws, personnel can be breeding ground for our to discretion and rules laws, these identify have to corruption. We and make them more "TRANSPARENT" by defining in regulations such if be exercised must discretion terms how clear discretion cannot be done away with completely. Target areas Programs shall include among others, the TRANSPARENCY for of disposition of awards and contracts, purchases, bidding properties licensing and administration of fines government and penalties. operations our make to endeavor also must We particularly in the delivery of services. "TRANSPARENT" be made clear, easily understandable and must Procedures highly visible to the transacting public. tax cases, decisions involving seizure cases, Finally, other similar and classification and on values rulings decisions must be furnished the DOF for publication/dessimithe of basis/rationale the highlighting purpose nation decision.
C.
STREAMLINING
must review our systems and procedures particularly We involving the public and ask: ourselves the following those questions. Is it necessary for each and every transaction to go the system or will the government and the country as a thru be better off by focusing scrutiny only on a certain whole percentage of the transactions ? 1.
Are each and every step in the process necessary and 2. indispensable? Are the requirements of the process reasonable and 3. can actually be complied with under existing conditions ? Are the lengths of time within which the transactions 4. processed consistent with the requirements of the will be public ?
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the intention in streamlining to limit It shall be to a percentage of transactions consistent with scrutiny maintaining adequate control, to do away with unnecessary processing and to make steps and requirements in the consistent with the requirements of the processing times public.
D.
RISK ENHANCEMENT :
must be exerted In general, closer supervision exposed to the highly particularly on our personnel temptations for engaging in corrupt acts. Procedures must be counterchecking the work done by agents, down for laid examiners, appraisers and others without investigators, nor the number of steps in the processing adding to lengthening the processing times. our systems and procedures must be Equally important, such that records are generated in the process that will show clearly persons responsible for particular acts.
III.
TASKING
Bureaus Heads of and offices shall be A. All for the preparation and implementation of Antiresponsible Corruption Programs following the strategies laid Graft & down herein. Programs must comply in substance and format with the guidelines shown in Annex "A".
All designated Bureau/Office Action Officers are B. for the monitoring of the implementation of the responsible programs. A monthly report must be submitted to the DOF Task Force and the Action Officer must keep the Anti-Graft Force informed of the progress of their Bureau/Office Task program. He shall also perform such other functions in the area of Graft and corruption as the Chairman may direct. C. The Chairman, DOF Anti-Graft Task Force must in addition to the functions laid down under DO 52 prepare a monthly consolidated report of the status of implementation
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of the various programs for the information and appreciation He shall the Department Secretary and Undersecretaries. of to the attention of the Secretary program objectives bring are not being achieved and he must measure by any that means, the level of Graft and Corruption in the reasonable department to serve as basis for a determination as to whether or not the programs are working as intended.
Copies of all new regulations must be furnished to the DOF Anti-Graft Task Force for post-issuance review. IV.
EFFECTIVITY This order shall take effect immediately.
Bureau/Office Program of Action must be submitted to the Secretary (Attn : The Chairman DOF Anti-Graft Task Force) within 30 Calendar days from date of this order.
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